Bomb threat!

Thousands caught in jam after bridge closure

The news started filtering in in the late afternoon. News of a traffic jam at the Penang Bridge lasting for four hours, ostensibly to clear up an overturned trailer on the bridge. But later it was acknowledged that the authorities investigated a purported bomb hoax - a metal pipe found wedged under one of the girders. The bomb squad exploded the pipe at the site - you can imagine the panic when unknowing nearby residents heard the explosion.

With global terrorism at it's height (even though it is apparently far away), in today's world one cannot be too careful when it will strike home. Terrorists are well known in not discriminating sovereign borders (read Bali, Jakarta,) so we have to be on our toes. Anything can happen nowadays...